i vote voys ...it's silly to see 150 bots at B8 at the same time!!! Not only no one can pirate them all, further imangine this : 150 bots of voys + 3 capships + Ctc voys on the end of the week and a lot of cargos (craps or goods) droping by bots....Then some of them warp....and finally ours ping is not 500 ms but 1000 ms or more!!!!
Why sometime we can't see a voy? and sometimes 1 voy with 40 bots?? can the number be reduce to 5 or 6 bots per voy?
Sedina B8 is the first road through grey space ...there are 3 stations at Sedian and 5 at Odia ...so imagine when 8 voys leave their own stations and go through B8 + 8 others who go to these stations ....
Really it's silly to have all these voys...never pirates can destroy them all!!!!
it's better have 1 carrier + 2 guards for each voys and frequently than all these bots...
it's horrible when 100 bots warp at the same time in an sector...u can't do nothing!!!

I have no problems when the voys come through and warp. I was in B8 when two massive ones crossed paths with each other, and I was fine. I didn't check ping, but everything was smooth as I flitted around in between the bots.

Then again, I just built a new computer this summer.. 80 warps on top of each other will probably tax just about any setup's rendering capacity.

My ping suffers horribly when voys are in-sector, and I'm like 10 miles from the servers and usually get around 10ms pings.

(Now everyone can envy ME tumble ha HA!)

Part of it is my 64 MB card, giving me lag when the voys come thru Sedina B-8, but I checked and it IS my ping that is affected as well. Goes up to 30-40 at times. But then it will go back down.

It really doesn't matter since 40 ms ping is easily playable. But, I can at least confirm Gavan's post.

Plus, as an aside, Gavan's gotten easier to kill because of this, when before he would wipe the sector with me. So either Gavan is rusty or his connection is giving him grief.

>:P

Happy Thanksgiving you Canadian! (Gavan)

Haha Leber, our thanksgiving is in October :P

We're working on a couple of things to improve the bots. For one, they'll fiddle around a lot less, jockeying to find the perfect position (which sends lots of unnecessary network traffic). For another, the warp animations are pretty intensive, especially en masse, and I'm shooting to make a less intensive version available to those on slower machines.

Maybe make a warp animation that is just like a flash of light, similar to those used for Battlestar Galactica TV series. As an option anyway. My old iMac G4 800 would handle them easier.

M. Duncan

Well, you can currently turn down the effects detail and remove the warp animations entirely. But yes, I'll try to get some sort of alternative in there that will at least show you someone is warping in, and isn't too graphically intensive.

As long as we get the option to turn them back up....
I like it when my FPS drops below 30.
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